I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and … immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …

immigration policy in a spatial context. Keeping the US-Mexico context in mind, we assume that labor from a source nation enters a … to relatively high levels of illegal immigration. While inter-state migration costs moderate such overprovision …/under-provision, extreme levels of inter-state immobility may lead to too little illegal immigration, and an overprovision of local goods …

welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is … ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other hand …, natives may demand more redistribution as an insurance against labour market risks brought by immigration. In this chapter, we …

This paper analyzes immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our … model, legal immigration of skilled labor is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms … in response to market conditions and through policy-imposed barriers. A loosening of the immigration quota reduces …

) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We …

immigrants should depend not just on their own characteristics, but also on the legacy of past immigration from the same country … that history matters in immigrant assimilation: the stronger is the tradition of immigration from a given source country …